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-Daily Mail
Since I am a supporter of Israel and the Jewish state does not discriminate against gays, no doubt I will be accused of "pink-washing" here, but what the Hell-here goes.
In the ISIS-held Syrian town of Raqqa, the animals of ISIS showed just how gays are treated under sharia law. A man accused of being homosexual was bound, blindfolded, taken to the roof of a tall building and thrown off. The body was then stoned by the assembled crowd below.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2972601/ISIS-savages-murder-gay-man-Syria-Man-thrown-roof-mob-swarm-pelt-corpse-rocks.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
Back here in the civilized world of the USA, no doubt the President, his minions, and CAIR will condemn the act but insist that it has nothing to do with Islam. However, under hudud sharia (the section of sharia that outlines punishments for "crimes against God"), homosexual acts (along with adultery, apostasy and blasphemy) are punished by death. No matter how much your friendly neighborhood imam tells you that is not true or that Islamic religious scholars disagree, it is affirmed by the leading schools of Islamic thought.
Here is the important point: Don't let anybody tell you that ISIS is not Islamic. They are following the letter of Islamic law.
Leviticus and Deuteronomy prescribe more or less the same punishment.
ReplyDeleteOh, Anonymous already that. Well, can't say it too many times, because Gary doesn't hear it the first, second, third, fourth or fifth time its said.
How long it has gathered dust is not relevant to the question, is it prescribed in the sacred texts of some religion. After all, Islam has done without enforcing this punishment for quite some time before ISIS came along, and no doubt there are some ultra-Orthodox Jewish settlements who, if they ran out of Palestinian shepherds to take pot-shots at, would start stoning Jewish gays.
But I must say, I love how ISIS has made American conservatives so gay-friendly all of a sudden. (And I don't even support gay marriage, not that I'd expend any energy to prevent it, either.)
Islam wasn't enforcing it before ISIS came along?
ReplyDeleteReally? How about Iran-for starters?
Looks to me like there is a LARGE difference between ancient prescription and current practice as far as the Bible is concerned.
ReplyDeleteNot the same case with Islam/ISIS.
As a not too far right-wing conservative, my main problem with gay marriage is that, as with most if not all other forms of "affirmative action", its recognition and implementation inevitably result in the creation of yet another underclass of people who are more equal than those of us who are white, straight, non-Muslim, non-Jewish, etc.
ReplyDeleteIran stoned gays? Under the Shah? Under the Safavids? Under the il-Khans? elwood is about ten miles back down the road behind this conversation, but maybe when he learns to read faster he'll catch up.
ReplyDeleteThey hang them, Siarlys. Haven't you seen the pics? That's why Ahmadinejad said they didn't have any gays.
ReplyDeleteSiarlys--You mentioned gay marriage first.
ReplyDeleteI have a bumper sticker on my pickup truck which reads "I may be slow, but I am ahead of you". It also fits you and me to a "T", with me, of course, in front almost, if not in fact all, the time.
You flatter yourself elwood. And Gary seems to be chronologically challenged.
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